Doctrine Slug Bundle

A Symfony bundle that automatically generates unique, URL-friendly slugs for Doctrine ORM entities using native PHP 8 attributes. Slugs are created on persist and optionally regenerated on update, with built-in collision resolution (hello-world, hello-world-1, hello-world-2, ...).

Features

• Declarative configuration via #[Slug] PHP attribute
• Automatic unique slug generation with collision suffixes
• Optional slug regeneration on entity update
• Configurable separator character and column length
• Reusable SlugTrait for common name/slug entity patterns
• Mapping validation (unique constraint, nullable consistency, source type checking)
• Integration with chamber-orchestra/metadata-bundle and Doctrine event listeners

Requirements

• PHP 8.5+
• Symfony 8.0+
• Doctrine ORM 3.6+ / DoctrineBundle 3.2+
• chamber-orchestra/metadata-bundle 8.0.*

Installation

composer require chamber-orchestra/doctrine-slug-bundle

If Symfony Flex does not auto-register the bundle, add it manually:

// config/bundles.php
return [
    ChamberOrchestra\DoctrineSlugBundle\ChamberOrchestraDoctrineSlugBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

Usage

Annotate a property with the #[Slug] attribute. The slug column must be unique.

namespace App\Entity;

use ChamberOrchestra\DoctrineSlugBundle\Mapping\Attribute\Slug;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

#[ORM\Entity]
class Post
{
    #[ORM\Id]
    #[ORM\GeneratedValue]
    #[ORM\Column(type: 'integer')]
    private ?int $id = null;

    #[ORM\Column(type: 'string', length: 255)]
    private string $name = '';

    #[ORM\Column(type: 'string', length: 255, unique: true)]
    #[Slug(source: 'name')]
    private string $slug = '';

    // getters ...
}

Attribute Options

Using the SlugTrait

For entities with a standard name/slug pattern:

use ChamberOrchestra\DoctrineSlugBundle\Contracts\Entity\SlugInterface;
use ChamberOrchestra\DoctrineSlugBundle\Entity\SlugTrait;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

#[ORM\Entity]
class Post implements SlugInterface
{
    use SlugTrait;

    #[ORM\Id]
    #[ORM\GeneratedValue]
    #[ORM\Column(type: 'integer')]
    private ?int $id = null;
}

The trait provides $name (varchar 127), $slug (varchar 255, unique) with getName(), setName(), and getSlug() accessors.

Mapping Constraints

The bundle validates mappings at metadata load time:

• Slug column must have unique: true
• Source property must exist and be a string type (string, text, or ascii_string)
• If source is nullable, slug must also be nullable
• Separator must be exactly one character

Development

composer test       # Run PHPUnit test suite
composer analyse    # Run PHPStan static analysis (level max)
composer cs-fix     # Fix code style with PHP-CS-Fixer
composer cs-check   # Verify code style (dry-run)

License

MIT